Category Archives: Politics

Record Producer John Forte’s Sentence Commuted

Rapper/producer John Forte, who worked closely with the Fugees before being sent to prison on drug charges, had his sentence commuted Monday (November 24) by President George W. Bush.
The musician was arrested at Newark International Airport in 2000 for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to distribute. Police discovered Forte with two briefcases [...]

T.I.: Witness to Murder

Looks like we might have a clue why T.I. went on a gun-shopping spree that got him in so much doo-doo.
Flanked by some serious security, the self-proclaimed King of the South took the stand today as a witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of an Ohio man accused of killing a member of T.I.’s [...]

Taco Bell to 50 Cent: You’re a Gangsta Wannabe

Taco Bell is using fightin’ words in its latest beef with 50 Cent, calling him out as “a self-described former drug dealer and hustler” and otherwise faux gangsta.
In July the rapper, otherwise known as Curtis Jackson, sued the fast food chain for $4 million for trademark infringement after the company wrote an open letter asking [...]

Michael Jackson Sued By Arab Sheikh in UK Court

The son of an Arab monarch took the King of Pop to court Monday, charging that Michael Jackson took $7 million as an advance on an album and an autobiography that he never produced.
Lawyers for Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa say their client paid Jackson expenses as an advance on the book and joint [...]

Ex-Soul Train Boss Charged in Domestic Spat

You can bet your last money, it’s gonna be an interesting court fight, honey.
Erstwhile Soul Train ringmaster Don Cornelius has been charged with multiple misdemeanors for last month’s domestic-violence arrest.
The 72-year-old showbiz vet faces three counts of spousal battery, one count of dissuading a witness from making a police report and one count of assault [...]

Mos Def Sought in Vegas Over Camera Scuffle

Mos Def was being sought by police on an arrest warrant stemming from a scuffle with a photographer at a fashion trade show last August, authorities and the alleged victim said Thursday.
“I had no idea who the man was,” said Volker Corell, 60, a Los Angeles-based photographer who said the 35-year-old rapper and actor, whose [...]

Obama Sweeps to Victory As First Black President

Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he told a jubilant hometown Chicago crowd estimated at nearly a quarter-million people.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from [...]

OBAMA’S AUNT ILLEGALLY IN US

He says he didn’t know; says laws should be followed.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.
 
     The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago [...]

Body of Jennifer Hudson’s Nephew Found

Police found the body on Monday of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew, who had been missing since Hudson’s mother and brother were slain last week.
Julian King’s body had been left in the back seat of a stolen car found abandoned on a Chicago street.
The discovery ended a search that began on Friday after [...]

Lil Wayne’s Assistant Testifies in Gun Trial

Was Lil Wayne packing heat?
That’s the question facing jurors at “The Block Is Hot” rapper’s trial on gun charges in Manhattan Monday.
Terry Bourgeois, Lil Wayne’s assistant, testified he saw a handgun “occasionally” on the hip-hopster’s tour bus and witnessed various people smoking marijuana, but he could not specifically single out the 26-year-old Wayne for possessing [...]

LeBron James, Jay-Z to Host Rally for Obama

NBA superstar LeBron James and Grammy-winning recording artist Jay-Z want people to get out early to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
James and Jay-Z will host a rally Wednesday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland which will include a free concert by the hip-hop star.
James attended a Cleveland rally earlier this month to encourage [...]

O.J. Case - A Jury HELL BENT On Revenge

In the case of O.J. Simpson, you all know that there was no way for him to get a fair trial. There was no way those jurors, 12 whites, were going to see this trial without embracing his last trial, 13 years ago. There was no way they had any other intention but to find [...]

Matt Damon, Wyclef Jean Visit Haiti City in Ruins

Cries of adulation — and hunger — followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city.
Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike submerged the Haitian city and cut off roadways. Where waters have receded, streets remain a stinking mud bath [...]

Robbers Raid Ancestral Obama Home in Kenya

Suspected robbers have broken into the home of U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s grandmother in a Kenyan village, local media said on Thursday.
“These are just people … who think that Obama has been sending me a lot of money,” Sarah Obama, the Illinois senator’s 85-year-old step-grandmother, said of the burglars.
Nothing was stolen during the [...]

Halle Berry’s Main Man

Halle Berry gave Barack Obama some valuable advertising space Tuesday, sporting his mug on her T-shirt while shopping at the Century City mall.
It’s the second time she’s pledged her politics on the fashion front. And she’s not the only one—several stars are supporting Obama stylewise. Though just how long until someone slaps his name across [...]

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